Kingsman: The Golden Circle Film Review

Finished watching Kingsman: The Golden Circle, directed by Matthew Vaughan and starring Taron Egerton, Edward Holcroft, Julianne Moore, Hanna Alström and Mark Strong. The film opens with Kingman, Eggsy Unwin (Taron Egerton) leaving the taylor shop when he finds himself in a fight against former potential recruit Charlie Hesketh (Edward Holcroft) who has now been given cybernetic implants by successful yet unknown drug cartel leader Poppy Adams (Julianne Moore) in hope to get revenge on the Kingsmen as a strong motivator to help with Poppy's own plans. After the fight Eggsy meets with his girlfriend Tilde (Hanna Alström) for his friend birthday. The next day while Eggsy is meeting his girlfriend's parents for the first time, the members for Kingsman are targeted and killed by Poppy with Eggsy and Merlin (Mark Strong) being the last of the organisation, leading to Poppy to go about her plans unchallenged with Eggsy and Merlin's only hope to stop Poppy being within a sister organisation based in America called Statesman. Overall this was a good film as it continues from the first film very well as the events of the previous help to inform and effect the characters while also dealing with the new threat of Poppy Adams. The action set pieces are very creative with how the characters fight one another which their skills and equipment that is on show. 7.5/10.